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In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy , a film that would make his career. Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas , adrift in New York City . He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffman 's Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist . The film explored late 1960s New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy , the film struck a chord with critics and audiences. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor, but lost out to John Wayne in True Grit .

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